“GOA was the first
group to jump in and help with my legal expenses. They really made a
difference.” -- Connecticut gun owner (and state senate candidate)
Walter Reddy, thanking GOA’s Larry Pratt for helping him to get his guns
returned from overzealous prosecutors

There’s been a lot going on around the country, and Gun Owners
of America has been at the center of much of it. We thank our grassroots
for their involvement in these efforts and for taking action on our
alerts.

While this alert will show where we stand right now, please make sure you see the ACTION ITEM at the bottom.

NULLIFICATION BILLS ADVANCE NATIONWIDE

Gun Owners of America has been working with legislators in
several states to prohibit state and local officials from enforcing
Barack Obama's gun control agenda.

ANTI-GUNNER BLOCKED IN HIS QUEST FOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
Despite the fact that the Senate blew up its own rules in order to destroy the filibuster, anti-gunners were not able on Wednesday to trot out the 50 votes needed to break a filibuster of the nomination of Debo Adegbile to be Assistant Attorney General.

The big story this week relates to Eric Holder’s justice
department, which will shortly announce NICS changes that would result
in the permanent seizure of large numbers of firearms by executive fiat
-- and make it harder for gun owners to get their seized firearms back.

Regularly, GOA receives pleas from members who have had guns
seized by police, both legally and illegally. The common thread is that
law enforcement is seldom cooperative in returning the firearms.
Sometimes police challenge the gun owners to “sue us.” And when
there is a form and a procedure, authorities frequently ignore
deadlines to respond.

Under Obama’s proposed changes,
most gun owners with seized guns would have to go through a new NICS
check. Since 8% of NICS checks produce “yellow” responses -- and 95% of
these are false negatives -- you can be sure that few of these 8% are
ever going to get their seized guns back.
In addition, Obama would create a centralized computerized registry of veterans and others who failed background checks.

Gun Owners of America will ask Congress to defund these lawless and unconstitutional actions.

ACTION: Contact the three key players in the House
Appropriations Subcommittee, who have the power to include legislation
to “defund” Obama’s anti-gun Executive Actions in the appropriations
bills that will be moving over the next few weeks.

Those three key players are Frank Wolf (R-VA), Robert Aderholt
(R-AL) and Andy Harris (R-MD). Those who live in these districts, can
contact them by cutting-and-pasting the letter below and using their
webforms. Those who live outside of the districts can contact them by
fax or phone.

Dear
I urge you to include legislation to "defund" Obama's anti-gun
Executive Actions in the appropriations bills that will be moving over
the next few weeks.

Eric Holder's justice department will shortly announce NICS
changes that would result in the permanent seizure of large numbers of
firearms by executive fiat -- and make it harder for gun owners to get
their seized firearms back.

Regularly, Gun Owners of America receives pleas from its
members who have had guns seized by police, both legally and illegally.
The common thread is that law enforcement is seldom cooperative in
returning the firearms.

Sometimes police challenge the gun owners to "sue us." And when
there is a form and a procedure, authorities frequently ignore
deadlines to respond.

Under Obama's proposed changes, most gun owners with seized
guns would have to go through a new NICS check. Since 8% of NICS checks
produce "yellow" responses -- and 95% of these are false negatives --
you can be sure that few of these 8% are ever going to get their seized
guns back.

In addition, Obama's unilateral actions would create a
centralized computerized registry of veterans and others who failed
background checks.

3. 1877. " In the meantime the fact that the
Negroes constituted such a great majority gave indications that radical
domination might continue. Especially this was true in regard to town
administration. This field of activity offered a greater opportunity in
exercising tact and ingenuity than that of county or state politics.
To meet this political emergency arose William Pippen.

(WilliamMayo,
my great grandfather. He traveled to New York City after the War in his
Confederate uniform as that was all he possessed, asked a friend of his
father's if he would lend him money to start a mercantile shop in
Tarboro, which he did, and was so successful that he built the *WilliamMayoPippen House beside the library in 1870 while acquiring numerous other lots. BT)

He conceived a plan by which the whites could control town affairs in
Tarboro. The old citizens will recall that prior to1875, there were no
wards or districts in the town of Tarboro; in fact, no such provision
had been anticipated in the town charter. (1760) A census of the city
showed that the Negroes had the majority and invariably elected all
three commissioners. Mr. Pippen appeared
before the State Legislature and succeeded in having the charter
amended, dividing the town into three wards. The first and second wards
contained the majority of whites in the central part of town, while the
third ward included the suburbs, where the Negroes lived. This placed
the Negroes in a position to carry only one ward, and the whites the
remaining two wards, and Negro domination collapsed."

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TARBORO — An exterior restoration of the Pippen-Staton House, a grand post-Civil War era mansion on Tarboro’s Main Street, is under way.

SECU*Real Estate has hired the Enfield-based contracting company Andrus & Company, LLC for the rehabilitation project. Preservation architect Richard Andrews estimated the project would be completed in three to four months.

“It is what I consider to be a pivotal, significant property within the Tarboro Historic District, which is a National Registered Historic District,” Andrews said. “The owner wants to sell it to a buyer, who will then complete the rehabilitation on the inside of the house…It would make a great residence. It’s been a residence ever since it was built.”

William Mayo Pippen, a wealthy merchant and planter, was the home’s first owner, purchasing the property in September 1879.

A cynical but true saying
that sometimes passes around among historians is “He who controls the
present controls the past.” Man is a symbolizing creature, and political
struggles can be as much over symbols as over tangible things. Those
who hold power and those who seek power want to associate themselves
with favourable symbols from their society’s past. It gives them an air
of tradition and legitimacy. Those who hold political, cultural,
educational, and media power obviously have an advantage in this game.
Or sometimes the game is associating rivals with negative symbols. Who
does not want to be likened to Lincoln Me and you, I am sure Dr. Clyde :) and to stick his opponents with
Hitler?

Needless to say, none of this has much to do with historical
accuracy, which even at its best is an elusive and to some degree an
unavoidably subjective thing. Thomas Jefferson was for a long time one
of the most potent references in American discourse. I can think of
nobody else who has had this role so powerfully as both a negative and a
positive symbol. Jefferson’s name is still significant, as witness the
relentless efforts of the present regime, which fears the real
Jefferson, to destroy him as a favourable image. But, regrettably, Mr.
Jefferson is no longer as important as he once was, nor does his name
mean what it once did for most Americans. We live in an age of reverence
for Franklin D.
Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King and
in a time in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America is as
remote to most citizens as ancient Persia or China.

Russia was swept up in patriotic fervor Friday for bringing Crimea
back into its territory, with tens of thousands of people thronging Red
Square waving flags and chanting "Crimea is Russia!" as a parliamentary
leader declared that the peninsula would be welcomed as an "equal
subject" of Russia.

The semi-autonomous region belongs to Ukraine,
but the local parliament has called a March 16 referendum on whether
Crimea should join Russia, a move President Barack Obama has called a
violation of international law.

The Gannett-owned newspaper that infuriated pistol permit holders in
Westchester and Rockland counties by publishing an interactive online
map of permit holders in 2012 that included their home addresses has
just won the latest round in a battle to acquire even more permit holder addresses:

A state judge has ordered Putnam County to turn pistol
permit records over to The Journal News, which sued for the data last
fall after the county denied the newspaper’s Freedom of Information Law
requests.

In a five-page decision Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary
cited the NY-SAFE Act, a sweeping series of gun-control measures that
allowed gun owners to remove their names from a public database after
the law was enacted in January 2013.

Neary ruled that the names
remaining on the database — those who did not ask to be removed from it —
are a public record and therefore subject to open disclosure laws.

“I was horrified,” said John Stemberger, chairman of the board of
Trail Life USA, a new, rapidly-growing scouting organization that
doesn’t allow openly gay members.

Stemberger was referring to an Associated Press photograph that
accompanied an in-depth story about Trail Life. The image showed a group
of young boys gathered in a circle with their hands raised at an
unusual angle. The AP’s original caption on the photo said they were
reciting the organization’s “creed” during a meeting in North Richland
Hills, Texas.

It took the AP several days to acknowledge their error. But by then,
the unfortunate comparison to Nazi Germany had spread on the Internet
faster than Hitler’s invasion of Poland.

Survivalists and preppers are (or are supposed to be) by definition something like smart folks, people who do not trust mainstream bu..s..t, who follow their own path to be winners at the end.

Actually in reality truth is different.

We all like to say that we are different but just like everyone else we fall under the influence too.

How many times you or some prepper you know built or formed opinion without even checking it? How many times you bought some item and store it just because you think it makes sense, not because you know it makes sense and you check on it. It is often easier way to believe others and you can not try everything yourself of course.

One of the most stupid things or worst mistakes that you can make in prepping is to become “mainstream”. Slap label of prepper on you and you start to think you are smarter than others. You may think that preppers and survivalists can not be mainstream because it is not logical, but yes we can.

We gonna buy bug for BOB because someone said “it is best for BOB” usually without checking who is the guy who said it. Or we gonna say “I have best gun for SHTF” because someone put huge amount of money for marketing it. If most preppers look at their storage they can find items they know theory of using it, but never used it.

The problem here is not buying these things. The problem is with forming your opinion and many survivalists think they know and they have plan but that makes them in reality less flexible to consider all options.

When SHTF and you realize quickly that you have completely wrong boots (or weapon, or BOB or whatever) you maybe still can fix it if you act. Changing way of thinking (or plan…) is harder.

The internet is awash with stories of Putin shutting down exports of ammunition to the U.S. in response to events taking place in Ukraine. Blogs are making unsubstantiated reports that such a mandate has been handed down from the Kremin, however I’m unable to find any credible news sources to confirm these rumors. I’ve not been able to find a press release from the Kremlin nor any mention of it elsewhere in the main stream media.

Infowars is reporting that distributors (not importers) are reporting a massive run on Russian ammo after hearing the unsubstantiated rumors of an ammo embargo. Of course distributors are going to be wiped out, people are doing what they always do — panicking and hoarding. It’s a seemingly endless cycle we’ve endured for the last eight years or so… and here we go again.

In assessing the motives and actions of Vladimir Putin, Hillary
Clinton compared them to Adolf Hitler’s. Almost always a mistake.

After 12 years in power, Hitler was dead, having slaughtered millions and conquered Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals.

And Putin? After 13 years in power, and facing a crisis in Ukraine,
he directed his soldiers in the Crimea to take control of the small
peninsula where Russia has berthed its Black Sea fleet since Napoleon.

To the Wall Street Journal this is a “blitzkrieg.”

But as of now, this is a less bloody affair than Andrew Jackson’s
acquisition of our Florida peninsula. In 1818, Gen. Jackson was shooting
Indians, putting the Spanish on boats to Cuba and hanging Brits. And we
Americans loved it.

Still, there are parallels between what motivates Putin, a Russian
nationalist, and what motivated the Austrian corporal. Hitler’s war
began in blazing resentment at what was done to Germany after Nov. 11,
1918.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused the US State Department of
double standards and low-level propaganda after it published a list of
President Vladimir Putin’s “false claims” about the events in Ukraine.

“The State Department is trying to play on a shamelessly
one-sided interpretation of the events,” ministry
spokesperson Aleksandr Lukashevich said on Thursday. “Surely,
Washington cannot admit that they were nurturing Maidan
[protests], encouraging the violent overthrow of the legitimate
government, and thus clearing the way for those who are now
pretending to be a legitimate power in Kiev.”

On Wednesday, one day after the Russian president's media
conference on the events in Ukraine, the US State Department
accused him of lying and published a “fact sheet” of Putin's 10 “false
claims” surrounding the crisis.

Moscow said that it will not respond to such “low-level
propaganda.”

“We will only say, yet again, that we are dealing with
unacceptable arrogance and a pretense of having a monopoly on the
truth,” Lukashevich said in a statement posted on the
Foreign Ministry’s website.

The United States has “no moral right” to lecture about
observing international laws and respecting the sovereignty of
other states, the diplomat added.

“What about the bombing of former Yugoslavia or the invasion
of Iraq over a fabricated cause?” Lukashevich pointed out.

U.S. Department of Defense satellite imagery has detected the
arrival of more than thirty (30) Russian nuclear bombers to the airfield
adjacent to Russia's Borisoglebsk national level nuclear weapons
storage facility (Voronezh-45) and has observed numerous transfers from
the storage facility to the aircraft, which are now standing-by along
the two runways at the airport.

As shown on the map below, the Borisoglebsk national level nuclear
weapons storage facility is located at latitude 51°21'47"N Longitude
41°55'38"E near the cities of Peski, Uryupinsk, Balashov, about 590 miles east of Kiev, Ukraine. (Map Here)

A Russian lawmaker is drafting a bill
that would freeze the assets of European and American companies
operating within Russia in the latest volley between the West and Russia
as tensions continue to rise with rhetoric and outright threats.

The chairman of the upper house committee for constitutional law, Andrey Klishas, is sure that Russia must have an enough leverage to deal with the threat of sanctions coming from foreign countries.A team of lawyers
are currently preparing a separate federal bill that would allow the
Russian president and government to confiscate foreign owned property in
Russia, including assets belonging to private companies, the senator
told the RIA Novosti news agency.

The bill is in response to the major political crisis in Ukraine and
the threat of sanctions against Russia coming from the USA and other
countries.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.